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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF LOUISIANA. 



REPORT OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUS- 
TRY OF LOUISIANA. 



Louisiana National Bank Building, 

120 and 122 Common Street, 
New Orleans, September 13, 18S9. 
To the President and Members Executive Committee Chamber of 
Commerce and Industry of Louisiana. 

Gentlemen: Your committee on foreign commerce ami the 
revenue laws begs to submit tlie following report upon tlie 
measures proposed by the Department of" State for considera- 
tion by tbe International American Congress : 

Tlie measures proposed by this Government, through its De- 
partment of State, for the consideration of the International 
American Congress are of the greatest importance. ■ 

Their favorable consideration and adoption will lead to the 
cementation of the nations of the American continent and an 
era of development uuequaled in the history of human events. 
Whilst this is a " consummation devoutly to be wished," and 
whilst a favorable consideration of tlie several measures p:o- 
posed will ultimately have the effect of bringing about their 
general adoption by all American nations, we believe that the 
first and most important is •' the establishment of regular and 
frequent communication between the ports of the several Ameri- 
can states and tbe ports of each other." Tlie several meas- 
ures and suggestions proposed, if successful, would be fraught 
with great advantages, both commercially and financially, to 
wit: A uniform system of weights and measures; protection 
of patent rights, etc. ; agreement as to arbitration ; extradition 
of criminals; adoption of a common current silver coin (mak- 
ing a dollar, a peso, and a sol of equal value, but coined and 
issued as nearly as practicable to bullion value), are primarily 
of great importance and will aid in the furtherance of inter- 
course and trade. It is to be hoped that all reforms that can 
be accomplished in this direction may be consummated. 

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We believe that when more intimate as well as more genera 
American commercial and social intercourse shall have been 
established, the adoption of these measures will be made easy 
and will be assured, especially if their popularity be cultivated 
by the several governments which lavor them, and legislation 
and custom be gradually made conformable therewith. 

The establishment of suitable transportation and mail lines 
upon such routes and upon such plans as will soonest develop 
the most widely spread commercial intercourse between "the 
several American states and the ports of each other," particu- 
larly from New Orleans, which is the natural outlet for the 
products of the entire Mississippi Valley, which products are 
so essential to the requirements of all countries bordering the 
Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, as well as Brazil and 
the Argentine Eepublic, will soon develop an intimacy between 
those states that will influence the general adoption of the 
proposed measures, or such of them as will appear to be mutu- 
ally advantageous. 

Your committee also recommends that this Chamber con- 
gratulate the Department of State upon the efforts it is making 
in behalf of American commerce and industry, and upon the 
favorable impression already made, and hope that its efforts to 
secure the establishm nt of more frequent and diversified com- 
mercial intercourse between our couutrj 7 and those of South 
and Central America, etc., will prove eminently successful in 
all respects. 



Respectfully submitted. 



A. K. Miller, 

President. 
Wm. W. Utjce, 

Chairman. 
J. W. Fairfax. 
Leon Jastremski. 
Henry Marx. 
Jno. I. Mellon. 
T. E. Roach. 

L. M. FlNLEY. 



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